Sixty horses have been saved from slaughter in Colorado after local supporters raised $US24,000 to buy their freedom.
Horse advocates based in Gunnison County spread the net wide and got the money together to stop the horses being trucked to slaughter

American history textbooks teach generation after generation that the wild horses roaming the Western plains originated as a result of the European explorers and settlers who first ventured across the ocean and into the frontier

Horses potentially headed to market were instead put out to pasture thanks to intervention from a group of animal rights activists.
Unwanted horses at the State University of New York at Cobleskill are sent to auction, where they face an uncertain

A pal of Sue Wallis is asking all the Summit of the Horse people to send in this survey asking for removal of ALL horses and burros within 5 years. Please fill out question #1 and pick answer #1 no interference or #3 minimal management. DO NOT pick#2

Free at Last: On Saturday, August 28, 2010 we received word that two NYC carriage horses have been retired and are now happily residing at a sanctuary in Suffolk County. We want to express our appreciation to everyone who played a part in this joyous

We ride horses in America, we don't eat them.
My friends and I supported efforts that shut down foreign-owned horse slaughterhouses in the United States, and we continue to work to pass the federal Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (HR 503/S 727),

One cannot imagine used cars being marketed as "unwanted cars" or existing homes being offered as "unwanted homes". But amazingly the Unwanted Horse Coalition (UHC) has managed to define horses offered for sale and unlucky enough to be purchased for

This past weekend, hundreds of Nevadans and horse advocates took to the streets to voice their opposition to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)'s gross mismanagement of the wild horse and burro program. At Nevada's state capital in Carson City nearly

They came from all over - and they just kept coming. Over 160 protesters lined the parkway in front of Nevada's Legislative Building in Carson City on Saturday. Passers-by honked their horns in support of calls to stop the inhumane harvest of wild

"This was an awe-inspiring, do-or-die effort demonstrating the wild horse's loathing of captivity," reports Craig Downer, an ecologist who snapped some of the photos. Wild horse advocates have named the escapee "Freedom" and are hoping to use his "heroic"